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THE Chinese puzzle is not being helped by the man who came to
lunch.
If Aneurin Bevan wore having chop-suey overy day with the nino Communist delegates from China and attending "Chu Chin Chow" every night he could hardly have aroused greater American suspicion.
Mr "Denial" Bevan is being presented as an appeaser, as the leader of a British revolt against American Icadership, the head of u splinter group in Anglo-American relations.
I suggest he makes a personal appearance in New York and at Lake Success, and be given the job of out-talking Mr Vyshinsky. He could do if well, win back his spurs, and prove to the tremulous throng here
IDDON'S DIARY
NEW
YORK, TUESDAY
Acheson, the
The bold
now
against the cult of the common steaks, frenzied fun and games. man and will wage war against They will want the works. Our the boobs who have become experts should be here bureaucrats,
ngainst
censors aludying the current Christma who have become commissars, dellrfum,
Says the editor, the ferocious chants who produced, as
move of the mer William Bradford Hule: "Free men should not be denied. such salesman, a Santa Claus ahead little diversions of schedule seems to be paying
off. as giving hot-
The tools to pom- their husbands money with the arc sponding
·
man in poly and lab-
tweeds, doesn't
suit
cials.
women
star
bing antpins prodigality of Government om
They are buying masses of
into
fat bot-
New York- glittering ceme mostly rhine- ara undoubted stones, and wearing the sparklers on their necks, arms, ears and in
the American crowd realicing their hair.
about the new They are also buying furs.) Mercuru which
Jousts The little foxes are back-stoles, muffs, scarves of silver, white, windmil but the magazine is to be fashionable. Men say it and black fox. To wear fox is is not the wolf at the door that keeps them broke, but the fur In the window
window.
been angry shouts for publle at every servants' heads. American nerves sight, are raw and with, reason. marred by an extraordinary ar On top of the Long Island ticle about English women railway disaster came the big the last war and their alleged blow which half-sirangled New subservience to the all-conquer-
ork and is suburbs, demolish- ing American male equipped In make-up the trend is pale ed houses, toppled trees, tee with nylona, lipsticks, perfume, pearl face-powder
damson lipstick. down street-signs, awnings, and oranges, hams, cigarettes, and
power line
lines. This is not always supreme sex-appeal I cannot
and dark
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A STORY OF BLACKMAIL, EXPOSURE & SCANDAL!
It could happen to
so many married
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/ames MASON
Joan BENNETT
Reckless Moment
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that he is not an ogre.
Eccentric visitors are wel-
here to charge American aggres- slon against Formosa are being handied with extravagant fars. usually reserved for film They are established in luxury suites in the Waldorf Astoria Hotel, guarded as carefuly as rare porcelain.
Stalin not target
tulold. Today it is overwrought noxious stuff. and hungry for guidance.
On Sundays the churches of
Muio
At the moment Bette Davis, as the result of her triumph in
Swanson, for her "Sunset Boule- the dictators, and and the co-ed are
vard," are hoooy America are more crowded than M Hule could spell his name hershadow at
t any time since the end of the Hooey, war. Clergymen say that the U.S. is on the brink of a great has religious revival.
Mass
ore
The challenger
DA LUPINO is tipped to chal- lenge the leaders. She plans
But at least the publication
tremendous drivo
and vigour in obvious contrast the to conversions under
the onaemic stuff we are spell of popular evangelists are printing and putting out on the taking place throughout the Festival of Britain.
an ambitious flm, "Man of the country, and the stadiums
and
scenes I am not at all impressed with World," with
shot at convention halls, as well as the modest little advertisements United Nations. churches and chapels, are about this Festival which
Deborah Kerr, who dropped In American magazines here. Into my apartment for a drink Hollywood's top ten actresses. precious, too confined.
I asked ten American friends Her "King Solomon's Mines" is what they thought about the making a
making a mint of money. Now Festival of Britain. Seven had she would like a strong. drama- never heard of it, two suggested tic role. Ever since the seven wise men
that because of its poor show- Charles Laughton's Elsa Lan- and two wise womes from the
manship now it would be chester will return to the New East arrived Mr Acheson has
DECENTLY she joined forces and one (a woman) asked York cafes after her success in been on the chopping-block.
"What are you trying to peddle the
Plaza's Persian Room as u The demand for his resigna with the spectacular Billy old castles and a new loan?"
singer
of droll ballads. I am immediate dismissal, and Graham, the 32-year-old
The Festival needs here, In surprised this new U. S. citizen
did U.S., publicity which
not sing prompt dispatch to Ellis Island preacher whom hundreds
"Yankee Doodle of the
con has become an incessant roar. thousands of Americans swear compete with the vast, compell- Dandy."
The British Alm "Last Holl- Surrounded by the thunder
ing propaganda of American and the Hghtning, the elegant
Some of the features of the business and entertainment. The day" got rave-notices here. Alec Acheson
remains urbane, witty,
Festival needs a Billy Rose, a Guinness should star in more of fervour are dignified, and most English in
Gold J.B. Priestley's originals.
SUSPECT that they are com- pletely nonplussed already,
they will find that the out- There has been standing target for American this since the days of Billy precious attacks is not their friend Joseph Sunday. And today Sunday's Stalin, but the U.S. Secretary wife, Helen, aged 82, but of State, Mr Dean Acheson, vigorous and impassioned, is himself.
spreading her husband's gospel.
If they can read the newspapers jammed with worsathing Uke We are being too restrained, too the other day, is now listed in
tiene
manner.
Due for sacrifice
IT is
r. this Anglicised attitude
which is infuriating the mob. They would be happier with a man who wore a ten-gallon hat, chewed tobacco. and said:
'by.
Strange contrast
CRANE Hollywood Darryl Zanuck, a Sam
a
It
If we
What they want
Best show is Damon Runyon's "Guys and Dolls," a big, brash, and bountiful musical comedy. Mr Runyon, whose biography I once wrote, would have been proud.
Footnote: Some members of present licensing laws in Britain should be suspend- Parliament are more concerned
Lival.
the The trippers and tourists than guarding country's will want limitless quor, 7in. future.
and showmanship
sponsored wyn, cr all three combined, radio
programmes, the perpetual needs the Texas touch. blare and glare-but thoughtful want to sell, we will have to
shout. are not perturbed. churchmen They say that the rawness and circus atmosphere will pass and that the important thing is that
years af after
indifference, are turning in multitudes to re- ligion.
"You've got a 100 percent, red apathy, or hostility the people ed for the duration of the Fes- about defending their own past
blooded American straight- shooter in old Dean."
But Mr Acheson cannot do that. He lounges in his English tweeds, clips bis epigrams, and works mightily for peace,
I am afraid he is doomed, des- tined for sacrifice to the vulgar. The crowd is obviously out for someone's blood. There have
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In view of this, the time hard- ly seen
seems ripe for resurrect- Ing Menckenism. Yet the new American Mercury, dedicated to battling Mencken's old adver- sarles as well as some new ones has made its bow.
This magazine announces with great trumpetings that it
A British Crossword Puzzle
ACROSS
3 Very hungry.
7 Suppose.
Vex.
10 Come out.
13 Mixture.
15 Pari.
17
Changed.
18 Make up.
20 Responsibility.
21 Dusted.
20 Freedom of access.
27 Install.
26 Wrecks.
29 Overcome,
DOWN
1 Tribal emblem.
2 Defamatory statement.
3 Rule.
4 Wickedness.
5 Speaker.
0 Appeared.
9 Entertain.
11 Fruit.
12 Slopes,
14 Team.
15 Respond.
16 Embankment.
18 Crouches.
10 Assemble.
22 Lifeless.
23 Characteristic.
24 Stupid,
25 Threesome.
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8 Leant, D Sprite, 10 Tooth, 11 Order, 12 Edge. 13 Rears, 16 As- alat, 18 Lissom, 20 Stems, 22 Helr. 23 Pints, 25 Topaz, 20 Hurdle,
Alto, 4 Pecress, 5 Interim, 6 Stores, 7 Utter, 14 Attended. 15 Sobriety, 10 Assizes, 17 Soothed, 10 Impale, 21 Thong, 24 Sure.
GINGER BRITTON in “SOULS in PAWN" Lever, 28 Ogres, 29 Deadly. Down i Mistreda, 2 Struggle, 3
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FERDINAND
ARE AMERICANS LOSING
THE CINEMA HABIT? Small attendances worry Hollywood
From FREDERICK COOK: Now York.
America has more people 150 millions of this year's census, and a million-a-year increase for the past decade--but fewer of them are going_to_the_pictures___ Americans are making more money, but spending less of it at cinema box-offices.
Hollywood Is seriously worried. The obvious whip ping boy is television.
In New York, where there are close to 2.000.000 television sets in use, the cinemas' stump is tremendous.
aft, and
In
In Chicago a cine chain has
already televised special events
on big screen TV. First reports were discouraging. There was no rush.
Many cinema owners openly blame the studies for dull plc- tures.
1 I
Hulting and puffing, five-year-old Hayden Chap- pell gets absolutely no results from his efforts to get an compah from this tuba outside the Royal Albert Hall in London. Hayden's father is bandmaster of the Coventry City Band, one of Britain's top 17 brass bands. (Acme)
First Atom Power Station Is Nearly Ready
New York.
The first atomic reactor on the hugo new Snake River Plains site of the American Atomic Energy Com- mission, in Idaho, is now nearly completo. On it, say the scientists, doponds the main hope of making atomic power In the future and possibly most of the promised blossings of the Atomic Ago,
The new reactor, called a fall the world's supply of ordinary "breeder pile," is designed the experts think, will "breed" uranium into plutonitum, which, to create fuel. In this it is even better than uranium. unique.
This would furnish a non- AL
according present,
to stop supply of atomic fual. American atomic scientists, there is not enough atomic fuel in the world for more thxu transitory power.
Work on the now "oven" 15 strictly a peace operation.
400,000 ACRES
The Snake River Plains site a year ago was nothing but an undulating treeless 400,000-acre expanse of wilderness covered sagebrush rimmed by high
-with..
mountains.
HOW TO TALK-BY POLLY
Ethel and Jack, twe par- Now it contains three great rots who amuse the cus- reactors, two already working,
3
all but lost to sight on the vast tomers in a London in, reservation.
are taking lessons from a The first two are concerned BBC recording. with power experiments for the U.S. Navy and with the test- Folly, a cockatoo owned by the The recording was made by ing of certale materials.
licenseo of the Inn The BBC never used the recording because Polly wore between her lines
The Atomic Energy Com- mission have announced that the third reactor is to be ready by the end of this year but have fixed no exact date. The size of the pile also is a a secret.
a
Jack and Ethel are not up to Polly's standards, so they now listen to her record in an effort to improve ly owned by
their vocabularies. Jack, formerly ow sailor, uses many nautical terms, and whistles at girls 20 much that he has to be kept indoors during the summer.
Indoors he can be just as annoying. He meows like a cat, starts the visitors' dogs barking, because then shouts: "Stop it!" in a thrill uranium in voice. the world they want to force which
the material to "breed," so that back. one atom will produce more
But what de worrying the Some demand more pictures, movie people much more is saying that features run too that, proportionately, the box offee slump is just as acute in long in the big houses, and then move into suburban theatres Honolulu, which has no TV at for another long stay, Twice- remote country | n-week changes are demanded. towns beyond the reach of TV, The Houston conference also where film-going was not BO demanded much more colour. long ago a confirmed habit.
Only one thing brightens the cinema A GRIM STORY
owners' gloom: the
order The facts tell a grim story of Government
banning steady decline since the winter building of new cineums.
think, peak of 1048-7.
will This, they "Every year
end since has been
a little growing competition from the just
drive-ip theatres, worse than the one before.
of This year the spring season there are now thousands. was particularly bad. Then the Korean war for some reason unloosed a rush of business at the cinemas.
HAT ANGLE
But it did not last. By Sep; CONTROVERSY
tember the decline had started again. Every week since it has been regularly lower even than a year ago.
First models of Festival year millinery shown in London herald a fashion controversy over the angle at which spring hats should be worn, It is be- tween the forward and the backward tilt.
and peaked-berets will be worn forward; picture hals, bonnet- berots and fitted caps will have backward tilt revealing the
At unpublicised meetings, top cinema men have been trying to find out what is happening.
The Theatre Owners af The hots were shown by the America talked for days at
Associated Millinery Designers, Houston, Texas, and came up of London. Pillboxes. toques with no frm answers. In New York there hav been talks between 30 of the biggest chain owners with as little result.
At both the Houston and New forehead. York talks, stress was laid on There is a Victorian air about | big-screen TV as a means of some of the colours and fabrics luring people back into thellae, purple and mauve satins, cinemas, but few explained how velvets and grosgrain, a man owning a set could be
Thero
are also four Festival induced to leave home, pay for colours, Festival gold, pink 51, a cinema seat and be satisfied | hangover green and rocket to see the same he could have blue, the last being a bright scen at his own fireside.
Chain Reaction
Cipo, 1998 by Added Fraters Spallasts, h
royal blue.
By Mik
Ita announced cost, however, £1,100,000, indicates that it is a relatively small brother in a family of glants. The other two are costing more than £8,500,000 and £60,000,000 respectively.
NON-STOP SUPPLY Scientists say that there is not much
than one.
If the dog persists, Jack barks
Ethel giggles. Her penetrating lough can be heard Joining in If they can do it, they believe, many jokes cracked at the bar It should be possible to convert of the Inn.
SIDE GLANCES
By Galbraith
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